Perhaps because I haven't played gauntlet, but I thought this was an awesome and fun little game. While I agree that it is hard to advance AT FIRST, my brother and I figured out a great character system and were able to beat 5 or 6 dungeons in a row before being crushed by the aforementioned tiger boss. The controls are insanely simple, and you get very few spells (If he's a king, why does he only spring for 1 of each type? aaaaagh!) but this adds a lot to the strategy. The one thing that I don't like is that when you die and run out of continues during a boss fight while a companion lives on an defeats him, he levels up but you can't. We had to replay a lot of dungeons to keep ourselves on the same level. Oh, that and the cryptic dialogue some of the characters spout. Other than that, its only 600 points, and it 5 players! It is worth a look by everyone!